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Monday, June 12, 2023

TORTZ volume 1 now available to print on demand

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I'm pleased to announce the publication of TORTZ: A Study of American Tort Law , volume 1 of 2. Hard copies can be printed at Lulu.com ...
Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Indian court refuses injunction of fantasy cricket league in unlicensed use of player names, likenesses

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Free SVG In case about fantasy sports, the Delhi High Court in India ruled in late April that satire, news, and art must enjoy protection fr...
Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Nike, Puma stop making shoes with kangaroo leather

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Nike and Puma both announced this year that they will stop using kangaroo leather to make shoes. I didn't know that kangaroo leather wa...
Monday, May 22, 2023

DA cannot shield officer, EMT identities from state FOIA disclosure, court rules in fatal police shooting

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A Massachusetts Superior Court in March ordered the district attorney to release investigative records to the family of a man killed by poli...
Sunday, May 21, 2023

Scholars examine efficacy of apology in book born of truth and reconciliation in South Africa

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Colleagues of mine in African studies, Professors Melanie Judge and Dee Smythe published Unsettling Apologies: Critical Writings on Apology ...
Saturday, May 20, 2023

EPA floats PFAS limits for drinking water

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Rawpixel CC0 1.0 PFAS has been much on the lips of regulators, lately and at last.  As I wrote in 2021 , the movie Dark Waters (2019), bas...
Friday, May 19, 2023

NYPD seizes adorable dog, person too, in retaliation for video-recording in public, attorney-plaintiff alleges

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A New York legal aid attorney was arrested, along with her dog, when she started video-recording police, and then she sued for civil rights ...
Thursday, May 18, 2023

Mass. court affirms big verdict against Big Tobacco

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Autodesigner via Wikimedia Commons CC0 1.0 Last week, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirmed a lung cancer victim's verdic...
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Mass., EU courts wrestle with requisite harm in defamation, data protection cases

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The vexing problem of proof of damages in defamation and privacy has turned up recently in the Massachusetts Court of Appeals and the Court ...
Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Panelists on child labor describe accountability efforts

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Schoolchildren play at a Goboué, Côte d'Ivoire, school built by Nestlé and cocoa partners. Nestlé via Flickr CC BY 2.0 . Liability for...